Hi All, I just recently bought the complete string quartets of Milhaud
performed by the Quatuor Parisii (on Valois)and I can reccomend it very
highly indeed.  I find these works to be inventive, richly complex, and
very beautiful.  The *polytonality* is often IMO a simple yet evocative way
or deepening the textures of the music and enriching the harmonic language.
Yet sometimes its deliciously contrapuntal as well as the voices weave in
and out of each other sometimes in imitation-sometimes as a discrete echoe
or thinly veiled response to the melody.

These are really rich and rewarding works and the Quatuour Parisii does
an excellent job with them.  The set is three for the price of five by the
way.

I'm curious how others feel about these to me sublime works and Milhaud in
general.  I still think he is underrated.

Best to everyone,

Peter Herwitz